On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 13:50 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 15:25:17 -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Yeah, I forgot to mention that little part which I suppose probably could > > have been rather important. So yes, I'm using experimental. > > In that case, this is expected breakage. GNOME 2.8 will use a new MIME > system (see http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1885), and this is > reflected in the GNOME 2.7 development branch (see e.g. > http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1893). > > The configuration applet that's giving you these errors, > /usr/bin/gnome-file-types-properties, is part of the `capplets' package, > built from the `control-center' source package. There is no GNOME 2.7 > version of that package packaged yet for experimental. The GNOME 2.6 version > is for use with the older MIME system; it doesn't work for the new one. You hit the nail right on the head! I checked the versions of installed packages, and sure enough, capplets was still at 2.6 while libgnomevfs and friends were at 2.7. I downgraded libgnomevfs2-(0|common) to 2.6 and all is well now. Many thanks! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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